Author: Baiden Gideon

HLC Properties Ltd owns the music catalogue and movie interest of the singer and actor Bing Crosby. In 2021, HLC Properties announced partnership with Primary Wave Music. Primary Wave acquired a stake in HLC Properties’ assets, which include the Bing Crosby Archives, which contain thousands of recordings by Crosby and other artists, many of which…

Legendary American singer and actor Bing Crosby was born on May 3, 1903 in Tacoma, Washington to parents Catherine Harrigan and Harry Lincoln Crosby. Bing was born in a house his father built at 1112 North J Street. Bing’s father was of Scottish and English ancestry; during the Puritan migration to New England in the…

Legendary American singer and actor Bing Crosby was born on May 3, 1903 in Tacoma, Washington to parents Catherine Harrigan and Harry Lincoln Crosby. Crosby’s mother was a second-generation Irish-American. She was born in 1873 and died in 1964. She was 90 years. Crosby was the fourth of seven children. His siblings included brothers Laurence…

Bing Crosby’s will left everything to Kathryn Grant, his second wife.  Crosby’s will led to a dispute between him and his first wife Wilma, best known as Dixie Lee. They were married from 1930 until 1952, when she died. They had four sons. HLC Properties was the trust set up to manage the estate. In…

Legendary American singer and actor Bing Crosby was married twice and had seven children. Dixie Lee, an actress and nightclub singer, was his first wife from 1930 until her death from ovarian cancer in 1952. Gary, twins Dennis and Phillip, and Lindsay were their four sons. His second wife was actress Kathryn Grant and their…

According to a publication by Attorney Thomas Burton of Burton Law LLC, Bing Crosby left a cash gift of $150,000 to his wife Kathryn Grant Crosby. He also left cash gifts of $15,ooo to his niece Carolyn Miller and then to St. Aloysius Church, $5,000, Spokane, Washington, Gonzaga University $50,000, Gonzaga High School, $50,000. In…

On October 14, 1977, renowned American musician and actor Bing Crosby died of a heart attack after a good game of golf at a course outside Madrid, Spain. He was 74 years. On that fateful day, Crosby played 18 holes of golf 14 at the La Moraleja Golf Course near Madrid. His opponent was club…

Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby Jr. was an American singer and actor. He was born on May 3, 1903 and died on October 14, 1977 at age 74. Crosby was the first multimedia star and was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. From 1926 to 1977, he dominated…

Australian politician and businessman Tony Staley had an estimated net worth of $10 milion at time of death. Staley had a successful business and public life after leaving politics, serving on the boards of Mitsubishi Motors, Alexander Stenhouse, Ogilvie and Mather, and the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, among others. From 1970 to 1980, he…

Tony Staley, the former Liberal Party national president has died at the age of 83. Staley was born on May 15, 1939, and died on May 3, 2023. A cause of death was not stated. Anthony Allan Staley was born in Horsham, Victoria on May 15, 1939. He attended Scotch College in Melbourne. He earned…